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Rod Stewart: 1960-1969 "Rod the Mod" early career
Rod Stewart started as an apprentice soccer player with Brentford F.C. based in West London. He soon switched to a career in music joining folk singer Wizz Jones in the early 1960s being deported from Spain for vagrancy. On his return to England, he went to Birmingham to join Jimmy Powell & the Five Dimensions as a vocalist and blues harp player. The band recorded a single for Pye Records with Stewart on blues harp. He also played the instrument on Millie Small's "My Boy Lollipop" which became a huge hit in 1964.
Rod Stewart returned to London in 1964 to join Long John Baldry's Hoochie Coochie Men which recorded a single "Good Morning Little Schoolgirl" which failed to chart. The Hoochie Coochie Men evolved into Steampacket featuring Stewart, Baldry, Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger, Mickey Waller and Rick Brown. Steampacket supported the Rolling Stones and the Walker Brothers in the northern summer of 1965 and would also record an album that would not be released until 1970 when Stewart had become well-known in musical circles. Stewart also earned the nickname "Rod the Mod" in that period after an appearance on a BBC documentary,1965, on the Mod movement.
Steampacket broke up in early 1966 with Stewart joining Shotgun Express as lead vocalist with Beryl Marsden. Shotgun Express also contained Mick Fleetwood and Peter Green who would go on to form Fleetwood Mac and Peter Mardens. Shotgun Express released one single before breaking up.
Stewart then joined Jeff Beck's the Jeff Beck Group as vocalist. In 1968, their first album
Truth became a hit on both sides of the Atlantic and the group toured extensively. The second album Beck-ola also was a hit in the middle of 1969 but the group broke up by the end of the year.
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Never A Dull Moment - career success 1969-1975 >>
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EuropeRod Stewart to sing for Prince Charles's 60th birthday party
Rod Stewart to sing for Prince of Wales's 60th birthday party.
Published: Sun, 12 Oct 2008 08:18:16 GMT - Source: Telegraph.Co.Uk - Read the article
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